There are lots of format specifications to serialize your data against. These days, I have been looking for potential alternatives to YAML, which has been my go-to tool for a while, basically because since Rails decided to use YAML from its very beginnings, Ruby developers started to follow the leader and it’s pretty widely used. [...]
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After a few weeks at CERN of not much blogging, I have been mostly flat hunting at one of the most expensive cities in the world. Of course the real estate market is accordingly crazy. This means I spend a big chunk of my spare time on the trolley, which is okay because I borrowed [...]
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We met Anthony Volodkin from Hype machine and Thatcher Bell, Greg Pass (former Twitter CTO) and Daniel Huttenlocher (Cornell’s Information and Computer Science dean). I had no idea they were trying to open a Cornell branch in NYC (CornellNYC Tech, in partnership with Technion, aka Israel’s MIT), but if someone had to run it, they [...]
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I am doing Project Euler problems as a way to learn better idiomatic Clojure. Today’s problem really made me realize how cool is clojure. Wording is the following A palindromic number reads the same both ways. The largest palindrome made from the product of two 2-digit numbers is 9009 = 91 *99. Find the largest palindrome [...]
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Chris Dixon and Josh Knowles were the talks for the week, being the former mostly QA and the second one probably the best presentation on Agile management concepts that I’ve ever seen. It was so much stuff in less than 1 hour and a half, I already know most of it but hell now that’s really ingrained in [...]
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Four weeks ago I started learning Clojure on my own. I took the bold move of building something awesome without even knowing the syntax, which I hope will eventually learn by doing an Amazon web spider and Project Euler problems. So far it’s being both good and hard at the same time, I kind of [...]
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Last week we attended two awesome talks. First Peter Bell taught us how to choose your tech stack wisely and it was.. very insightful, especially after me failing to choose the right technologies for my projects. Also he gave lots of tips about hiring people, etc, which are reflected on this list. On Wednesday we [...]
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We met with Chris Wiggins and Evan Korth and had some insights on what’s the way hackNY works and what do they want to accomplish with it. Also we met Chris Poole (m00t) founder of 4chan and probably one of the individuals in this city that has very opposite views to mine on almost every [...]
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Awesome fellow Terence Nip had a great idea and he is going to post his weekly learnings on his blog. We met with Joanne Wilson (a.k.a. the gotham gal), Dennis and Harris Foursquare founders, and chilled out on Wednesday with the Fog Creek crew at their offices. Overall a terrific week. Plus we got some stuff done and [...]
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So last week I have to go over a problem that really got me for a couple of hours. I am using RMagick at Lifebooker to generate some images with stickers on them. In short we need to put a sticker on our deals like “Last chance” and similar stuff so people when they receive [...]
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